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P. HOPP ET A'- EXHIBITOR MEMBER April 17, 1951 Filed June 8. 1948'IIIIIIIHIIl ""HIIHIIIH' "HllllillllI "'Hlllllllll JP INVENTORY fih'pH010? BY Zea PJU A TToRA/En Patented pr. ^17, 1951 y Philip Hopp and LeoHopp, New York, N. Y., as-

signors to Harriet H. Gold, New York, N. Y., and Helen H. Caplan,Flushing, N. Y.

Application June 8, 1948, Serial No. 31,626 l This invention is animproved member adapted to indicate the sizes and other characteristicsof articles of clothing, and is particularly intended for use in placeswhere finished garments are put on sale.

Suits, dresses, coats and other apparel are usually exhibited in storesand shops by arranging them according to the individual sizes andhanging them upon frames and racks so that they can easily be inspectedby prospective purchasers. To mak'e known the sizes of the garments ineach group, for example, tags are employed, and an important object ofthis invention is to provide a holder for the tags of such design thatit readily engages the rack, frame or other support that carries thegarments and will remain in place thereon.

A further object is to provide a tag-bearing member that is simple inconstruction, attractive in appearance, most effective in presenting thetag, and designed to retain its position on the support without the aidof special retaining means.

The nature and advantages of the improvement are made clear in thefollowing description, and the novel features are pointed out in theappended claim. But the accompanying drawings disclose only oneembodiment of our invention, and we may make changes in numerous wayswithout departing from the essential form wherein the invention resides.

On the drawings,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a tag-holding member according to myinvention.

Figure 2 is a top plan thereof; and

Figure 3 is a Vertical section on line 3-3 of Figure 1.

The member is generally flat and has an outline such as is illustratedin Figure 1. It is made of a sheet or web I of plastic or other suitablematerial, which may be molded, has legs 2 separated by an elongatedintervening space 3. The extremities of the legs have opposedprojections 4 which reduce the width of the entrance to this space asshown at 5. The member is made with suicient strength, flexibility andresiliency to enable it to be slipped upon the rack bar .6, which isthicker than the width of the inlet opening 5.v

Hence the member can be mounted on the support which carries theclothing simply by bending the legs out of the general plane of themember to widen the space 5 to the extent required, and will not becomedetached. No catches or other fastening devices are required.

The upper edge of the member has a flat wide 1 Claim. (Cl. 40--16)aperture l. At the opposite ends of this aperture or slot 1 arechannel-shaped guides 8, which extend toward the legs 2; and the innerends of these guides are united by a channel-shaped strip 9. Theseguides 8 and 9, together with the portion of the member having the slot1 constitute an open frame integral with the web I to receive the tagI0. This tag has the number revealing the size of the garments on itsface. l

The whole member is surrounded by a relatively thick reinforcing bead II which runs along the entire periphery of the holder. The edge at thetop along the slot 'I is a little thicker than the bead II, as depictedat I2. The upper part I3 of the member with the tag I0 is wider than thespace 3 and legs 2 and the corners thereof are vrounded as at I4, withsufficient area of web I between these corners and the adjacent cornersof the frame receiving the tag to impart to the member the necessarystrength. The legs 2 and the bead II along both inner and outer edgesgive to the lower half of the membersufiicient mass to overweight theupper part, and thus when the member is disposed on the bar Bandstraddles same, the whole unit is in stable equilibrium and will nottumble sideways and fall off. This effect is aided by making the beadaton the side in contact with'the barV 6. The upper edge has notches I5on both faces to enable the tag I0 to be grasped.

The member is therefore well calculated to give the objects aimed at,the cost of producing the member is small, and the results are verysatisfactory.

The tag I0 in practice will bear a number or other indication on bothfaces thereof that is visible at the front and rear.

Having described our invention, what we believe to be new is:

A member having a relatively wide portion adjacent one end, an integralframe in said portion, one edge of the frame coinciding with said end,the frame having a slot in said end to admit a tag into the frame, thelatter having channels along its inner edges opening through said slotto engage the tag, the remainder of said member comprising legs with aspace between them, the legs having opposed projections restricting thespaces between the extremities of the legs,'the latter being flexibleand resilient to be movable flatwise out o f the plane of the member towiden the space between the extremities of the legs, and a reinforcingbead beginning at one side of said frame and extending along theperiphery of said member including said legs to the opposite side ofsaid frame, said member having corners adjacent the junction of saidlegs and said Wide portion, said corners having a distance of materialextent between them and said frame, and a web lling the space between bysaid bead and said frame.

PHILIP HOPP.

LEO HOPP.

REFERENCES CITED Number 4 UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Leger Jan. 16,1900 Chwala Feb. 10, 1920 Barbour May 22, 1928 Singer Feb. 25, 1930Kovary Jan. 27, 1931 Meyer Mar. 8, 1932 Cox July 2, 1935 Hendrix Oct.17, 1939

